Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1889 — STUDY OF PALMISTRY. [ARTICLE]

STUDY OF PALMISTRY.

A “Professor’’ of This Art Tells How to Analyze Character. Look at your hand. Do you read your character in it? Or study your girl’s hand and be wise. The science of chiponomy, or the meaning of the human hand, says the Indianapolis News, always excites curiosity, but few people understand it. Can a man’s character be read on his hand as well as you can read it in his face, or by the bumps on his head? ’Tis so claimed, and the science by which it is done is a pretty one. It has many branches, all ol them wed worth" studying. “If the palm of the hand is skinny and narrow,” said a “Professor” of the science, “it denotes timidity, a feeble mind and w >nt of moral and intellectual force. If the palm is too thick, big and strong, it denotes a low intelligence and a tendency to brutality. A hollow, deep palm always signifies misery, ill-luck and failure in life. Fingers which are smooth denote a tendency to act upon instinct, impulse or intuition rather than by reason, calculation or deduction, Knotty fingers denote a tendency to order and arrangement. People with short fingers are quick, more impulsive, act more on the spur of the moment, than people with long fingers. If the fingers are very short it signifies cruelty and want of tact “Long fingers denote a love of detail. Such persons are tidy as to thei r appointments, easily put out and very careful about trifles. Workers in small things always have large hands, and the constructors of colossal works always have small hands. Smallhanded people write large, whilst large-handed people always write small. “Thick fingers denote luxury. Twisted and malformed fingers, with short nails, denote cruelty, tyranny and a worrying, teasing disposition. If a hand is stiff and hard, opening with difficulty to its fullest extent, it betrays stubbornness of character and avarice. If the fingers are supple, having a tendency to turn back, they denote, as a rule, cleverness and inquisitiveness, nearly always generosity, ending in extravagance. If the fingers fit close together it is a sign of avarice. If twisted sb as to show chinks between them it is a sign of curiosity. If they are smooth and transparent they betray indiscretion and loquacity.”